Grex Coop10 Conference

Item 80: Cyberspace Communications, Inc. Finances through 1/31/98

Entered by aruba on Thu Feb 5 23:14:31 1998:

Here is the treasurer's report on Cyberspace Communications, Inc.
finances through January 31st, 1998.


Beginning Balance     $2,938.71

Credits                 $384.00         Member contributions
                         $29.00         Auction proceeds
                         $20.00         Grex Store proceeds
                          $1.20         Sales Tax collected
                         $15.00         Silly hat fund contributions
                   ------------
                        $449.20

Debits                   $60.00         Pumpkin Rent for February
                         $83.00         Electricity for January
                         $20.00         Innovative Concepts phone line
                        $500.81         Phone Bill
                         $50.00         Renewal of cyberspace.org domain name
                         $71.37         Ethernet hub
                         $40.00         P.O. Box renewal
                        $216.63         New Disk
                         $36.09         Backup tapes
                          $7.07         Bank service charge
                   ------------
                      $1,084.97

Ending Balance        $2,302.94

Our current balance breaks down as follows:

$2,126.40               General Fund
   $65.00               UPS Fund
   $85.86               Silly Hat Fund
   $25.68               Sales Tax

The Grex Store activity looks like this:

                         Cash                                    Stock
                     ---------                                ---------
Beginning Balances:  ($293.60)                                 $423.20

                       $20.00   <--  Items sold  <--           ($10.20)
                     ---------                                ---------
Ending Balances:     ($273.60)                                 $413.00

We had one new member in January (cavers).  We are currently at 98 members, 90 
of whom are paid through at least February 15th.  (The others expired recently 
and are in a grace period.)

Well, January was a slow month, as you can see.  (That's in sharp contrast to 
January of '97, which was Grex's biggest month ever.  But a lot of that income 
was pledges for the new computer.)  We would have lost only about $200, but we 
had a bunch of miscellaneous expenses which brought the deficit up to about 
$635.  We're down to about 4 months worth of operating expenses in the
General Fund.

Thanks to everyone who contributed in January:

bmoran, bruin, cavers, convocat, davel, eeyore, gregory, gustitus, jiffer, 
monamoor, mziemba, null, witling, and the Grexwalkers, who contributed the 
surplus at Mongolian Barbeque to the Silly Hat Fund. 

Thanks!

If you or your institution would like to become a member of Grex, all it takes
is $6/month (or $60/year).  Send money to:

Cyberspace Communications
P. O. Box 4432
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4432

If you pay by cash or money order, please include a photocopy of some form
of ID.  I can't add you to the rolls without ID.  (If you pay by personal
check, we consider that a good enough ID.)  Type !support for more info.
10 responses total.
#1 of 10 by dpc on Fri Feb 6 16:03:57 1998:

Could someone please link this into Coop?  Thanx!

#2 of 10 by aruba on Fri Feb 6 16:11:26 1998:

I sent mail to dang about a link.

#3 of 10 by other on Fri Feb 6 23:36:40 1998:

could we have an explanation of just what the silly hat fund is, again. 
please?  thanks.

#4 of 10 by aruba on Sat Feb 7 07:27:53 1998:

Well, originally Peter Riley (nestene) handed me $5 at a board meeting and
said, "This is for the silly hat fund".  Later he told me that was shorthand
for "This can be used for anything, even silly hats".  But in the meantime I
had reported it on the treasurer's report as "The Silly Hat Fund".  Then a
strange thing happened - other people started to contribute to the fund, and
it grew to the size you see today.

I hope we can think of something interesting to do with it someday; something
that is valuable to Grex but more fun than just rolling it back into the
general fund.

#5 of 10 by tpryan on Sat Feb 7 17:31:05 1998:

        Well, hat or capital 6 is referred to as 'control' sometimes.

Some sort of controler functioning thingy?

#6 of 10 by janc on Sat Feb 7 21:20:16 1998:

I forgot to tell Mark that I sold a shirt to Carson, so actually the store
picked up another few bucks.  I need to get better about monthly reports -
or rather, I need to finish transfering the store to Jennifer.  We'll count
Carson's shirt in February, once I get the money to him.

#7 of 10 by aruba on Sat Feb 7 23:53:57 1998:

Jan handed me the money about 15 minutes after he wrote #6.

#8 of 10 by dang on Wed Feb 11 17:45:34 1998:

This is now (and has been for a bit) linked to coop.  Sorry, I'm way, way
behind in agora, and will probably *never* get this item read there.

#9 of 10 by anjul on Sun Feb 22 16:12:09 1998:

 Wish I too could contribute. Hope to do so within an year :)

#10 of 10 by aruba on Sun Feb 22 19:14:08 1998:

We will be happy to thank you when the time comes.

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